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PHILIP HAMMOND, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, ENGLAND.

MEAT-SAFE FOR BUTCHERS, 81.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,923, dated March 16, 1897.

' Application filed July 22,1896. Serial No. 600,136. (No model.)

T 0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP HAMMOND, butcher, asubject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Attleborough, in the county of Norfolk, England, have invented a certain Improved Meat- Safe for the Use of Butchers and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a fly-resisting meat-safe of large capacity for the use of butchers and the like during the hot season, said safe being constructed and arranged so that it may be readily fitted up when required and stowed away in sections when no longer needed. The interior of the safe is further so arranged that any desired joint or the like contained therein can be brought opposite to the safe-door and readily removed therethrough.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a meat-safe constructed in accordance with my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the safe, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the safe. Fig.4 is a detached View of one of the sections from which the safe is built up, and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of said section on an enlarged scale.

A A represent the sections from which the safe is built up, each of these sections consisting of a light metal frame a, preferably of angle-iron, covered with perforated metal or Wire-gauze 19, (preferably perforated zinc.) The several sections A are detachably secured together by means of the bolts 0, and, if found necessary, strips of rubber (1 may be interposed between the sections so as to make a tight joint. (See Fig. 4.) The lower ends of the sections A enter a channeled base-ring m, secured to the floor of the shop or apartment, and their upper ends may enterasimilar channeled ring fixed to the ceiling, ,or, when a safe of less height is required, asuitable perforated top or cover it may be bolted to the upper ends of the sections A, as illustrated, Figs. 1 and 2.

B B are the doors of the safe, which may be of similar construction to the sections A and which are preferably hung upon springhinges so as to insure their being normally maintained closed.

Disposed centrally within the safe is a vertical shaft f, the ends of which revolve in suitable bearings g, the top bearing being preferably fixed to one of theceiling-joists, as

shown. Secured to this shaftf at convenient intervals apart are a series of rings h, from which the joints and the like are suspended. Each of these rings h is made of greater diameter than the ring beneath, thereby permitting the joints slung from any ring to hang clear of those suspended from the ring beneath and thus ecohomizing space. The rings h may be constructed and fixed to the shaftf in any suitablemanner. In the drawings they are represented as consisting each of two semicircles, the chords of which are clamped together around the shaftfbybolts 2', as shown in Fig. 3. represents stays extending from one ring to another, the stays of the lowermost ring being attached toacollar Z, secured to the shaft f. It is obvious that, if desired, spirally-disposed arms secured to and extending horizontallyfromthe shaft f might be substituted for the rings h, the joints hanging from each arm clear of those on the arm beneath. I prefer, however, the arrangement illustrated in the drawings. Also, in lieu of slinging the joints and the like from the rings h the latter may carry suitable trays upon which the former maybe placed, and this arrangement would be especially suitable in the case offish and poultry.

Any of the contents of the safe may be brought opposite to the doors thereof for removal by revolving the shaft f.

WhatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A meat-safe comprising the vertical sections A, each section consisting of a rectangularframe of angle-iron covered with screening material, the bolts securing the sides of said frames together, the rubber packing interposed between the junction of the sections, the channel-ring into which the lower ends of the sections fit, the revolving central pillar, the racks of different diameters about the same increasing from the bottom to the top of the series, each rack consisting of two I name to this specification, in the presence of semicircles the chords of which are clamped two subscribing witnesses, this 1st day of around the central pillar by bolts, and the July, 1896. cover or top of the safe having a central bear PHILIP HAMMOND. 5 ing for the revolving pillar, substantially as \Nitnesses:

described. A. E. ALEXANDER,

In testimony whereof I have signed my H. WV. KNOTT. 

